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THE DESERT-WHEATEAR. 



SaxIcola deserti, Riippell. 



Although the Desert-Wheatear has a still more southern habitat 

 than the preceding species, it has undoubtedly been obtained on 

 three occasions in Great Britain. The first example, a male in 

 autumn plumage, shot on the 26th November 1880, near Alloa in 

 Clackmannanshire, was sent for exhibition at a meeting of the 

 Zoological Society (P. Z. S. 18S1, p. 453), by its owner, Mr. J- J- 

 Dalgleish. The second, a bird in female plumage, obtained on 

 the Holderness coast, Yorkshire, October 17th 1885, was sent for 

 exhibition by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 835), 

 and is in the collection of Mr. J- H. Gurney. A third — apparently 

 a young male — was shot near Arbroath on December 28th 



1887, and was exhibited at a meeting of tne Zoological Society 

 of London on March 6th 18S8, on behalf of the late Lt.-Col. 

 H. M. Drummond-Hay, who published details in 'The Ibis,' 



1888, p. 283. 



Three wanderers of this species have been obtained on Heligo- 

 land : a male on October 26th 1856 ; a female on October 4th 

 1857 (these being originally and erroneously recorded as ^. siapa- 



